For the last couple of days I’ve been feeling really ill. It started out on Sunday evening when I was watching a film with Dave and Hayley. I started to shiver pretty constantly. I though I might actually just be feeling the cold, as it is February. An hour or two later it was a lot worse. My face was boiling to the touch but I was still shivering. I was also feeling sick.

I decided sleep was the answer, but ended up being sick first. 🙁

Sunday night is one of the worst nights I’ve ever experienced. I woke up at least 10 times during the night. When my alarm went off at 6:30 I also had a sore throat, so I sent an email saying I wouldn’t make it to work.

Throughout the course of the day my knees and hips began to ache a lot. Ibuprofen helped keep that dulled down a bit, and my fever disappeared. I did have a really stiff neck though, at which point people told me to look for a rash thinking of meningitis. Pretty sure I don’t have that though.

Shortly before I fell asleep on the sofa I began the whole feverishness thing of shivering while being boiling to the touch. I managed to drop to sleep, but woke up less than half an hour later with a shout because my right hip was absolutely killing me.

I managed to talk myself into getting up from under the warm blanket so I could get ibuprofen and gargle with Oraldene then go to bed properly.

I woke up in the night completely covered in sweat, which was horrible enough, but also the ibuprofen had worn off and my hips and knees were hurting again. 🙁

I sent another email saying I was still unwell and slept until the pain woke me again. Now I’m in bed trying to work up the courage to get up.

Ugh. I hate the last day or so!